Joseph Biggerstaff
Education
2021-2025
Ph.D. History
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
University of Bonn
2017-2021
M.A. Global History
Free University of Berlin/Humboldt University of Berlin
2008-2011
B.A. History and Philosophy
Eastern Michigan University
Academic Positions
2021-2025
Doctoral Candidate
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Bonn, Germany
2016-2017
Lecturer in English and History
Higher Philological School
Wroclaw, Poland
2014-2017
Freelance English Instructor
Wroclaw, Poland
Publications
Journal Articles
Dec. 2023
“The Plantation and Land Which Was Hers Before”: Ownership and Possession in Barbados, 1680-1750
Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society LXIX (Dec 2023), 1-27
Book Reviews
Dec. 2021
Review of Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard Evans
Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur Rundschau 82, issue 1: 117-119
Nov. 2019
Review of How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
Global Histories: A Student Journal 5, issue 2: 148-152
Nov. 2019
Co-review of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Global Histories: A Student Journal 5, issue 2: 164-169
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR ACTIVITY
Sessions Organized
Nov. 2023
Plantations: Forms & Practices of Coerced Labor in Global History, co-organized with Ulbe Bosma
Round table at Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
November 24
Oct. 2023
Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World
Workshop at Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
October 16-18
Jun. 2019
Presenting work in academic English for non-native speakers of English
Workshop at Global Histories Student Conference
May 31-June 2
Jun. 2019
Panel on Global Environmental History
Global Histories Student Conference, Free University of Berlin
May 31-June 2
Panelist
Jun. 2024
Slavery and Dependency: Comparative Approaches in Global History
Book Discussion with Benedetta Rossi, Paulin Ismard, Stephan Conermann, and Claudia Jarzebowski, BCDSS
June 4
Mar. 2024
Orphans in an Infant Society: Crises and Dependency in Early Barbados, 1640-1730
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Seminar Series (CRMS), Monash University
March 15
Oct. 2023
Separate Ways: Legal Practices and Serial Displacement in the Atlantic World, 1660-1730
Workshop “Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World,” Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
October 16-18
Oct. 2021
Settler Mobility and the Global Plantation Complex, 1898-1946
Annual Western Historical Association Conference
October 27-29
Apr. 2021
Ecology, Knowledge, and Power in the Plantation Complex: 1624-1700
Graduate Conference in European History, University of Vienna
April 7-9
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2023-2025
DAAD-UA Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme Grant
“Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World: Gender, Trauma, and Trafficking in Transcultural Perspective (1500-1800)”
Service
2024-2025
Ph.D. Representative
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
2018-2020
Editorial board member
2018-2020
Conference organizer
Global History Student Conference
2016-2017
Extracurricular workshops
Higher Philological School in Wroclaw, Poland
2016
Examination board member
Regional academic competition at the University of Lower Silesia
